Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering 481

                                                   M,W, F 8:00 – 8:48, 142 Ag Eng Building

                                                                       Call No. 00872

                                     Lecture / Lab Syllabus and readings for 2001

Lecture

Date

Title

Description

1

September 19 (W)

Introduction

Introduce the course, discuss engineering units, dimensional analysis

2

September 21 (F)

Fluid properties

Intro to viscosity

Fluid viscosity introduction

Force balance on flow in pipes

Hagen-Poiseuilles's Eqn

Lab 1

September 21 (F)

Lab intro, safety, computer spreadsheets

 

3

September 24 (M)

Fluid viscosity

Conservation of mass

Newtonian vs Power Law fluids

Conservation of mass

4

September 26 (W)

Pressure

Conservation of energy

Bernoulli's Equation

Gauge vs. Absolute Pressure

Conservation of energy

5

September 28 (F)

Fluid flow regimes

Review Bernoulli Eqn problem setups

Laminar vs. Turbulent flow

Reynolds number

Lab 2

September 28 (F)

Fluid viscosity

 

6

October 1 (M)

Frictional losses during flow

Moody diagram, frictional losses in pipes, fittings, valves, etc.

7

October 3 (W)

Pumping fluids

Describe pumping power, performance curve, suction, delivery and total head NPSH and cavitation

8

October 5 (F)

NPSH

NPSH and cavitation

Lab 3

October 5 (F)

Pressure drop measurements + Pump Performance

 

9

October 8 (M)

Refresher class

 

10

October 10 (W)

Pumps

Comparing centrifugal and positive displacement pumps

11

October12 (F)

Properties of steam

Steam quality

Exam 1

Lab 4

October 12 (F)

No lab meeting

 

12

October 15 (M)

Basic heat transfer

 

13

October 17 (W)

Steady-state conduction

 

14

October 19 (F)

Steady-state conduction

Heat exchangers

 

Lab5

October 19 (F)

Heat exchangers

 

15

October 22 (M)

Heat exchangers

 

16

October 24 (W)

Problem set

 

17

October 26 (F)

Lumped transient heat transfer

Convective heat transfer coefficient

 

Lab 6

October 26 (F)

Convective heat transfer coefficient

 

18

October 29 (M)

Heisler charts

 

19

October 31 (W)

Problem set

 

20

November 2 (F)

Pre-exam help

 

Lab 7

November 2 (F)

Exam 2

 

21

November 5 (M)

Refrigeration, vapor compression cycle

Components to mechanical refrigeration, P-H diagram, T-S diagram

22

November 7 (W)

Refrigeration, mathematical expressions

COP, RFL, Refrigeration calculations

23

November 9 (F)

Refrigerant selection, multistage refrigeration

Ozone depletion, improving COP

Lab 8

November 9 (F)

Transient heat transfer lab

 

24

November 12 (M)

Holiday-Veterans day

 

25

November 14 (W)

Properties of air and water vapor

Mass, volume, enthalpy, wet and dry bulb temperatures

26

November 16 (F)

The psychrometric chart

Heating, cooling, dehumidification, humidification, drying, mixing air streams

Lab 9

November 16 (F)

Psychrometrics lab

 

27

November 19 (M)

Freezing

Ice formation, freezing point, freezing time, frozen storage

28

November 21 (W)

Evaporation

Boiling point, types of evaporators,  design specifications

29

November 23 (F)

Holiday - Thanksgiving

 

Lab 10

November 23 (F)

Holiday - Thanksgiving

 

30

November 26 (M)

Dehydration

Drying rate, dehydration systems, configurations and designs

31

November 28 (W)

Introduction to Process Control

Control concept: open loop, feedback Sensing: T, P, concentration, Control systems: PID, PLC

32

November 30 (F)

Pre-exam review

 

Lab 11

November 30 (F)

Exam 3